Exactly. And may I add to your point the privatization of public communication by social media ( especially Instagram ). It’s becoming very hard to find information about your city public action without an account on Instagram; now to be a citizen is required to have an “social media id”.

Also, business are becoming hostages of Instagram: their only way to communicate with the customers is through this mediation. I think is very very important to platforms like pixelfed to become more popular and indeed brake these people free.

Really beautiful. We shouldn’t let capitalism ruin our utopia of the future, that’s a way of winning without playing the game.

It worked today!

distinguishable gentleman

… the snowflakes glisten on the tree…

Why?

Eyebrow guy looks like John Cleese.

People are squeamish about eating insects but are okay with all the killing of cows, pigs, chickens and more, which is a very much nastier business.

Maybe that can be a useful ideia for someone that has Parkinson or something similar. It seems easier to avoid mistakes while “typing”.

And I thought I was the only one!

How about something like elections? A community could vote to change its “base instance” to another instance. Example, ask lemmy community vote to change from .ml to .world. It’s possible to do this by just not posting in the “old community”, so maybe community cloning and community hopping could be the solution.

What would happen to him? Asking for a friend.

Well, just watch " The masked scammer " documentary and you’ll see how this can ( and definitely will ) go wrong. For summary, there’s this article on Wikipedia: Gilbert Chikli.

Exactly!

Jenius!

thank you so much. your response means a lot to me, and definitely helps me feel less burdened by the struggle 🥹

i’m just glad im aware of the issues and it’s not too late to take action and help myself

Bot spotted!

Forbidden ice cream

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Exactly!